Party_Kake

WAIT I GOT IT.

It's T33ch@h'Z p3t!!!

I should have recognized such good handwriting from the beginning!

I'll definitely agree to that. plainclothes attire for all characters is an awesome thing, and I can't wait to mix and match with this stuff on ALL my characters, which could take months. All from a few costume parts that people wouldn't have claimed would be that important.

Street sweeping missions are so incredibly bad.

And it's not so much that they're easy or hard, as it is that it's incredibly frustrating to talk to someone who says "oh yeah, you'll find the lost in kings row" only to find out that there are very few specific spots in an area on the zone where they show up, and they share spawn locations with other groups so you might fly right by ALL of their spawns and never see one... And ask yourself "WHAT in the WORLD is this guy THINKING? There are no lost here!"

See that? That's one of the reasons I love this game. We have a pair of freaking CLASSES dedicated to crowd control, and they can actually USE their holds against the big bad. Words can't describe the immense respect I have for the developers who made it possible for dominators and controllers to be that awesome.

It was the butler! no, wait... it was The Narrator!!!!

hahaha, well, you have to face it, Grimdark was a comics phase...

The term bugs me less here where characters actually might be cartoony, it's more bothersome in other games where your character is nothing like a toon.

Also I think it originates from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Oh another one that was crazy was the "Army of Me" badge - on another mastermind. when you have 8 masterminds throwing around heals, heal over times, buffs, stacking aoe debuffs, and summoning like 48 minions, then casting a buff on some of them that summons even more, things get hairy pretty fast. so that one was purely due to the achievement factor of it.

Winterminal, don't lie, you were just looking for an excuse to use that picture.

This is easily the game with the BEST track record for developer feedback and information.

Empowered, because it's my favorite comic book.

Jason Todd, Bucky Barnes, Uncle Ben.

Give it time.

And while I'm here, just because it bugs me: that earlier article you mentioned about Mary Sues is total bunk.

Luke Skywalker is a Mary Sue, as much as Bella Swan and the others are.

It's not a gender-assigned title unless you let it be. If you say that Mary Sue can't be applied to males, that's the only reason why it can't. I can even go down the list.

He's named after the guy that made the movie.
Every character in the movie that's of the opposite gender is connected to him. (his aunt is murdered to inspire him to hate the empire, and princess leia is his love interest - in episode 4 that is, "before" she becomes his sister)
Every character that's classified as a villain is depicted as starkly different to him, and that includes their ultimate weapon, the death star (which is a giant breast, but that starts getting into sexism, and is neither here nor there)
he wears white, and the other characters who do either have to be rescued by him, die, or are subservient to him.
He outdoes other people at what they do best despite their decades of practice, with little more explanation than "plot be with you." All the while, he's simultaneously "the rookie" and "the veteran," which indicates obscenely high favoritism towards a single character in a story.

The same rules apply to most heroic characters, and they're put under a harsher lens for scrutiny simply because long ago many superhero writers MADE these mistakes.

Superman before kryptonite, Wonder Woman before... ropes?, Batman, of course...

But then most superheroes are simply guilty of this because of different writers taking things in different directions.

You can have a story where Superman's at his best, has all his powers, and the story still ends TRAGICALLY because Superman absolutely refuses to go beyond certain limits, refuses to hurt people, refuses to take away their freedoms. Take, for example, when Gotham became "No man's land" and Superman helped a single guy get the power plant back into working order. In just under a day suddenly things looked great for the city - until people came up to that one guy and started bribing him to get their power back first. When superman came back to check in on it, he was shocked to discover that things were becoming corrupt, but he couldn't change it. The city was simply not capable of running normally.

And people love to rag on batman but that's more because there are a LOT of comics about Batman. In some of them he's "the god damn batman," in others he's not quite so full-blown *******. There's always going to be some disparity between one comic and another because different people are writing them, and heck, it doesn't even have to be different people! It can just be one writer getting older and forgetting something.
That being said, Batman's been through a lot of getting the crap beat out of him.
It's all worth it though when it leads to stuff like this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...anArkhamAsylum

A while back I had the idea for your personal Arch-Nemesis to be added to the game, probably never mentioned it.

the idea being that around level 20 or so you qualify as "big time enough" that you attract the attention of a villain or rogue (if you're a villain, vigilante, or hero), a vigilante (if you're a rogue or villain), a hero (if you're a villain), or a handful of other characters regardless of alignment.

Hero - Villain or Rogue comes after you, most likely villain.
Villain - Hero, Vigilante, or Villain comes after you, most likely Hero.
Vigilante - Villain or Rogue comes after you.
Rogue - Vigilante comes after you.

For our example, we'll say you're a hero and your arch-nemesis is the randomly chosen "Tarantulax," a giant mutant spider with axes on the ends of its legs, very scary.

You're doing a typical hostage rescue mission, and just as you rescue your kidnapee, and start heading back to the entrance, you happen to notice someone with superspeed heading towards you from the exit you have to take to get out of here. It's tarantulax. He charges after you and initiates the fight, using a few powers to try and stop you or slow you down. If you escape with the person you're trying to rescue, whether or not you beat him, you win. Otherwise, Tarantulax will beat you, automatically become your first nemesis, and just to rub it in he'll steal the person you're supposed to rescue and leave with them. you get mission completion status (because another hero rescued the person from Tarantulax), but from now on Tarantulax will harass you when you're doing missions. If you beat him, or if you get away, Tarantulax goes away and never bothers you again, but other characters from that rogue's gallery will each get their chance to take you down, making you their arch-nemesis.

Eventually you will, at level 50, get the chance to make a final confrontation with each of your nemeses, and when you beat them (eventually), you can replace them with someone from a list that you get to choose, or even create custom nemeses.

For example at level 50 I might choose to make my arch-nemesis the duke of pie, and I go into the costume editor and make a completecostume for him and a few quotes and such.